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    Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts

    We’ve been using them for on the low ground, got up to 2shears lambing now. I have the bright ideas, brother finds all the faults. This is one breed that he still actually likes. Not too big, good mothers and plenty of milk. And quieter than the cheviots that they’re bred from
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Big ewes and anything carrying plenty of flesh is a strong trade. Leaner sorts are best hung onto at the moment
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    Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts

    Seems a shame to bring them down to paddle round a wet field to lamb, they can always find some shelter on the hill even on a night like last night. But we lose too many to predators when we try and lamb on the hill. This one beat me to it when I gathered.
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    From a distance they looked healthy and a decent size but lean. A month on some spring grass would have made a world of difference
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    I saw a few in Skipton as I dropped some off. Pure Charolais spring lambs 43-48kg £190-210. Dalesbred hoggs 31kg £80, 33kg £86. Plain texel hogs £3.60-3.80/kg
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    Capital grants - Farming Equipment and Technology Fund 2024

    I'm not looking for a jetter, but I saw this in the FG and it appears to meet the spec ?
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Fresh leg of New Zealand lamb in Sainsbury's £6.50/kg, big promotion on. It says in small print previously frozen, but it also has the symbol for suitable for freezing 🤔🤷
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    Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts

    I had two blue bulls in at Gisburn yesterday. I thought they were just a straight trade really, one at £405 and this one at £470. Just under 6 weeks.
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    Sheep being shot

    I knew a lad who used to pour melted wax amongst the pellets in a shotgun cartridge for shooting foxes, he said it would kill at a fair distance, if he managed to hit them. Never fancied trying it myself.
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    Today at work

    I did better than I expected. 3 Angus bulls and a Blue heifer, £290-£330, averaged £303. All just under 6 weeks. 👍
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    There’s folk round here planning to claim for herbal leys. They have been told that as long as they keep the receipts from the contractor to show what they have drilled in, they should be alright if it doesn’t take. I was told yesterday that RPA are just starting to inspect the first round of...
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    Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts

    Is that the propylene glycol? I asked the other day, and all they had was propylene glycol in a gallon tub, which we already have for cows, and the small bottles which are mainly propylene glycol plus a few extras.
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    Capital grants - Farming Equipment and Technology Fund 2024

    They wait until the application window is closed before they can work out the threshold score. Last year we received an acceptance email on 17th July, the closing date for applications was early April. The cut off score for acceptances was 42, but that could be different depending on the number...
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    When the MMB lost control of the milk market, we decided to stay with the coops because we thought it was the right thing to do. Milk Marque, Zenith then Dairy Farmers of Britain until just before they went bust. That decision will have cost us £100,000 and more, and we’re not in a big way. And...
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    claire hughes, Sainsburys report on future >2019

    I was at a Morrisons meeting last week, and they said that 99% of their customers bought meat or dairy. They had 10% share of total supermarket sales but 12.5% of meat sales, and were keen to build on this.
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